Corrie's Eileen Grimshaw star Sue Cleaver 'nearly died' after co-star pointed out symptom
Coronation Street's Sue Cleaver had a close call with death after a co-star noticed a worrying sign on set. The actress, who plays Eileen Grimshaw, shared her scary experience with sepsis during a chat on Loose Women earlier this year. While discussing the topic 'How good are you at listening to your body?' with Ruth Langsford, Linda Robson and Brenda Edwards, Sue revealed how she was diagnosed with sepsis.
"I happened to be working one day, we were filming a big party and there were about 20 people in the scene," she said. "My colleague turned around to me and said: 'Sue your toes are black!'" Despite feeling unwell and freezing in the middle of summer, Sue continued filming all day before going home and discovering she had sepsis. She previously spoke about this terrifying health scare in 2019 on This Morning, explaining that she initially thought it was a flare-up of her IBS.
"I went in on the Tuesday and late in the afternoon I said: 'Do you need me in this scene because I'm really not feeling great? I need to go home and sleep'. My side was sore. Then I came in the next morning at half seven. It was the hottest day of the year but I was on set with a hot water bottle."
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She then shared that her Corrie co-star, Melanie Hill, who played Cathy Matthews, noticed her feet were purple and blue.
The star continued: "I went home after lunch and got into bed and tried to go to sleep. My husband [James Quinn], who also works on Corrie, was on a night shoot and tried to ring me. He said: 'Something's not right. I can't hear what she's saying because your teeth are chattering too much. He came back and I was just shaking."
"He rang our daughter, who's a paramedic who said: 'Get her to hospital.' My temperature was 39.9. I didn't know I had sepsis till the next day. Immediately I was on fluids and antibiotics. There was an hour window of opportunity."
Discussing the recovery, Sue admitted that it took her a "long time to get better" and that she was on bed rest for a few weeks.
The actor also revealed that, although she doesn't have a sweet tooth, all she craved for three weeks was "cakes, pastries, custard.”
